World Record breaker, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, has been shortlisted, alongside 10 others, for the 2022 World Athlete of The Year Award.
A statement by the Senior Media Relations Manager at World Athletics, Maggie Durand, seen by The Guardian, yesterday, listed Amusan and others for the December award.
A few days after setting a world 100 metres hurdles record of 12.12 seconds at the World Championship in Oregon, United States, Amusan clinched a gold medal at Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games in England before adding the Diamond League gold medal in Zurich.Amusan, born on April 23, 1997, is the African 100 metres hurdles champion. She had finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics and was also a fourth-place finisher at the 2019 World Championships held in Doha, Qatar.
“Through the grace of God, I have achieved so many ‘firsts by a Nigerian’ and this is yet another one. Individual graphics for each nominee will be posted on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube; a ‘like’ on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube or a retweet on Twitter will count as one vote. Meanwhile, the president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria , Tonobok Okowa, has called on Nigerians to vote massively for Amusan as she bids to become the first Nigerian to be named World Athlete of the Year by World Athletics.
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